Friday, June 20, 2008

I was surfing the web looking for a great barbecue video recipe to post in celebration of the start of summer, when I came across this. While it is probably bad form to goof on a fellow food blogger, I can’t help it. If David Lynch and his Grandpa ever made a cooking video, this is probably what it would look and sound like.

I don't even know where to start. This clip has it all - an affectatious voiceover, creepy rubber gloves, matching serial killer knife, a giant bologna (I really hope it's bologna), a quasi-porn soundtrack, and…snow? Having said all that, it actually looks kind of good, and I would have totally enjoyed sharing one of those sandwiches he makes at the end of the clip. Hey, is that a wood chipper over there?

38 comments:

... half way through this I was convinced it was you, Chef John. I just knew it was you pulling off a great joke. I couldn't imagine it to be a real site, but... holy %#$#

Great great find.

Now let's get serious here :Chef, how long will I need to leave my knife outside under the back porch before it gets the kind of rust necessary to pull off this kind of cooking? I work all day and just don't have the time. Any time saving tips here?

I gotta say, that clip is amazing on so many levels...I went to their website to check out some more of their stuff. I do believe that if the Dukes of Hazard had the interweb back in the day...this is the stuff they'd be doing.

I actually came across some of this guy's other videos once, and to add to the weird tool riff, he uses a short of weird meat hook to prick and flip his steaks in this grilled ribeye video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=vB16Dbjz8oo

Pretty weird stuff, but I guess that's how they do it better in Texas.

HE says "Does that look good or what?" I say What. All that work for bologna. He says "Get some toothpicks and ya got yerself some oraderves fer ya next party." Whee doggies, I want to go to his next party. Not.

ryan, I thought you were implying the the clips were secretly sponsored by webber, so I was making a joke.

I have seen some of their clips. I encourage ALL online cooking videos. I think they do a great job, I just get a kick out of the voice over. And the whole bologna bbq is a surreal pleasure of the highest order. I hope they get lots of new fans from this post.

I do see the Miller similarities, but believe those to be coincidental.

Now chef John, due to your posting of this video I have spent many hours watching http://www.youtube.com/user/BarbecueWeb videos (second only to your fantastic recipes of course :-).Looks like these guys are also getting fairly popular now, and I'm hoping my postings to everyone I can think for both your site and theirs is helping.Thanks again.

They did this BBQ meat loaf recipe that was just great. They basically filled a cookie sheet with ground beef, topped it with rub, crappy pre-shredded cheese, bbq sauce, and a cast iron skillet-ful of sausage, bacon, jalapenos, tomatoes, onions, mushrooms, and pineapple slices. Then they made huge, greasy burgers out of them. The best part was when they filled up the cutting board with raw veggies and used the tip of the serial killer knife to chop them all up.

Another time, they braised - in an aluminum pan filled with Kraft bbq sauce on the grill - a rack of country style ribs.